Late Qing Dynasty Executioner

Chapter 46 Everything is as usual

county seat.

There was no news for several days, and Addis's disappearance seemed to have caused no ripples. However, the look in Liu Er's eyes when he looked at Chen Kui was a little strange these days.

There was a loud "Bang!"

Chen Gu chopped the wood hard with his knife, stared at Liu Er with flaming eyes, and shouted, "You damn old man, are you done yet?"

Liu Er put down the purple clay teapot in his hand somewhat embarrassedly. He found this thing in Addis's cabin. Liu Er simply couldn't let it go, otherwise he wouldn't have risked bringing it back to use.

There were many good things in Addis, so Liu Er only took back the purple clay teapot. Chen Gu didn't want anything else, but took back all the banknotes.

"Well, I just feel that your two girls look good, but they are not a good match. If you really want to find someone to marry, you should find a woman with a clean background!" Liu Er persuaded Chen Gu.

"Don't mind my business. Why didn't someone think about his clean background when he was looking for a prostitute?" Chen Gu laughed disdainfully, "Haha, the most important thing is that he was rejected in the end!"

Now it was Liu Er's turn to be a little overwhelmed, "I was just feeling sorry for her, who the hell told you that?"

Liu Er used to go out often, but now he stays at home most of the time, sitting in a rocking chair and drinking tea. Maybe he is bored, so he always talks about Chen Gu's ugly deeds.

In fact, it was nothing to Chen Gu, a later generation man. After all, the origin of the Qing Dynasty was bitterly cold. Under the ancient conditions, it was basically impossible to take a bath in winter and spring. Cutting the hair short could also prevent lice.

Chen Gu liked short hair, so he didn't have a yin-yang hairstyle. He just had a flat head with a rat tail. Anyway, as long as he had a braid at the back of his head, no one could say anything to him.

That is, after shaving all the hair, only a piece of hair the size of a coin is left at the back of the head. The braid you make will only be qualified if you pass it through the hole in the middle of the coin.

When the Manchus entered the Central Plains, the so-called shaving of the head and changing of clothes meant leaving a rat tail. What is the rat tail hairstyle?

"Where are you going?" Liu Er couldn't help but ask when he saw Chen Gu going out.

"Buy three-line meat. I don't like lean meat. It's not oily." Liu Er explained and muttered, "It's a problem. Who gets a haircut every ten days or half a month? He always gets a flat head with a rat tail. The yin-yang hairstyle is popular now."

Speaking of the current yin-yang hair style, it has developed slowly. Maybe the emperor thought the rat tail was really ugly, so the area of ​​hair left on the head became larger and larger, and now it has reached more than half.

"Haircut, grocery shopping and cooking!" Chen Gu said without turning his head.

Although Liu Er personally participated in the fight that day, he was not injured. But after he came back, his health seemed to be worse. Not only did he have to take medicine every day, but his energy and spirit were also much worse than before.

"Why do you care who I listened to? You should take care of your own health, otherwise you will die before all the money is spent. That would be a big loss!" Chen Gu said, put down the machete in his hand, turned around and walked out.

At this time, there were already barbers and even special barber shops. What made Chen Jue upset was that these barbers recognized Guan Yu as their ancestor and even enshrined Guan Yu’s statue in the barber shops.

Therefore, Chen Gu never went to the barber shop, for fear that they would look at Guan Yu's portrait and want to imitate him, and then really cut their hair.

Going out and walking deeper into the alley, there is a barber stall at the corner. The barber is a young man. When he sees Chen the Assassin coming, he immediately greets him with a smile, nodding and bowing, saying, "Hello, brother Assassin, give me a haircut!" Looking into the young man's open collar, one can see a few hideous scars faintly visible.

"Well, get a haircut!" Chen Gu pointed at the young man's collar and sat down, saying, "Be careful. If someone sees your scar, it will easily lead to random speculations!"

"Young Master is right. I will pay attention to it!" Scar nodded, then took out a piece of hemp cloth, shook it open and tied it around Chen Gu's neck.

The Sixth Platoon led by Lao Nian was active outside. After careful consideration, Chen Gu set up their headquarters in Jiangjin and bought them a row of houses at a high price behind Liu Er's yard.

After the two houses are connected, the two sides can meet directly.

Lao Nian personally took people and money to visit his brothers' families in various places. Sanlang took people to Chongqing to gather intelligence and recruit new members for the organization. Tanluhu took people to upstream, including Luzhou, Yibin, Chengdu and other places to inquire about the government's reaction to Addis's disappearance.

More than ten days had passed, but the news that came back was that everything was normal. This made Chen Gu a little confused. He wondered if it was because General Addis from Chengdu had disappeared and officials from all over Sichuan didn't care, or if it was because the transportation was slow and they couldn't react in time.

But no matter what the situation is, the slower the court's reaction, the more beneficial it will be to Chen Gu and his men. Time can fade all traces, even fade away memories.

The clippers in Scar's hand made a continuous clicking sound, and it didn't take long for him to cut Chen Kui's hair.

Chen Gu looked at himself in the mirror brought by Scar, nodded and smiled: "Your skills are not bad, why do you still run out to mix in the underworld?"

"Having a good skill doesn't mean you can find a job. The demand for barbering is so great. My father is still young, not to mention that I have other brothers in the family. We have to move to another place because our family is poor!" Scar explained.

"Haha, if there is one less barber in the world, maybe there will be one more high-ranking official." Chen Gu patted Scar's shoulder and said with a smile: "Take your time, first find a way to recognize all the characters, and then read more books.

Two thousand years ago, people said that kings, princes, generals and ministers were born with different blood. Even more so now, the Qing Dynasty has been able to hold on to its throne. This shows that nothing is impossible in this world. The key is still to look at opportunities, and whether you work hard enough to seize opportunities! "

"What the young leader said is right. I will try my best!" Scar nodded heavily. If Liu Er had told him these words, Scar would not believe them. But since these words were said by Chen Gu, they were much more credible.

Who would have believed in the past that a small mountain stronghold like theirs could kill a Chengdu general who was driving a large warship and steal such a large sum of money?

But Chen Gu led them to do it, and the deal was done very well. If the brothers had not thrown the explosives cans around, there would have been no casualties.

Because of this, when assigning tasks, Scar did not choose the field work with the most lucrative benefits, but chose to stay and follow Chen Kui.

After cutting his hair, Chen went to buy a few pig's trotters and a pound of soybeans.

In this era, pork fat is more expensive than lean meat. Pig's trotters and pig's heads, which have little meat, are very cheap. The net meat is about 70 wen, and the price fluctuates a little depending on the fat and lean content. Pig's heads are just over 30 wen, and pig's feet with trotters are just over 40 wen.

Pig's trotters alone cost only twenty-five cents, so they became Chen Gu's first choice. Since the pigs were small, weighing only a little over 100 pounds, four pig's trotters only cost more than 60 cents.

(End of this chapter)